Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2AE9FA2C4 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:28:57 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53464-05 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:28:45 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from homsrv01.homisco.local (mail.homisco.com [64.213.65.19]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C259FB487 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:28:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([192.168.10.77]) by homsrv01.homisco.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:28:44 -0500 Message-ID: <45B8F6DB.9040307@oisinglynn.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:28:43 -0500 From: Oisin Glynn User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Bibbins CC: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Windows 2K Installation difficulties... References: <7775b64a0701250853n35888fc9wc6a99cedd7479d0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7775b64a0701250853n35888fc9wc6a99cedd7479d0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms070501030307010007060502" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jan 2007 18:28:44.0776 (UTC) FILETIME=[A5753E80:01C740AE] X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.47 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, BAYES_50, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200701/95 X-Sequence-Number: 18297 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms070501030307010007060502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Neil Bibbins wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having difficulty installing PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows 2000. It > gets most of the way through the installation and fails (I think) > after trying to initialize the database. The log message is: > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. > > fixing permissions on existing directory C:/Program > Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data ... ok > creating subdirectories ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... 10 > selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000 > creating configuration files ... ok > creating template1 database in C:/Program > Files/PostgreSQL/8.2/data/base/1 ... Bad command or file name > could not write to child process: Invalid argument > Initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/Program > Files/PostgreSQL/8.2.data > > I have removed all virus software, although I hope to reinstall it > after installation. (Can PostgresSQL really not run as an application > with virus protection installed? Ouch...) > > I have tried deselecting the initialization box and initializing > afterward, but this also doesn't work. Possibly I'm using the wrong > command, which is one that I found from a post from Magnus several > years ago. > > I have installed Cygwin, but this also didn't help. > > Can anyone assist? I've done many forum searches but nothing seems to > work. I don't think I'm attempting the impossible! > > Thanks for any insight. Much appreciated. I am running on XP, 2k and 2k3 with various different VirusScanners without seeing issues (Symantec, AVG) Though 8.1.X not 8.2 Might you be hitting some permissions error on the folder/drive? Are you logged on remotely (RDP?) or directly on the machine? 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